Four Courts Press logo
Search

The Irish Soldier

In Peacetime and at War, at Home and Abroad, from Earliest Times to the Present

Thomas Bartlett, editor

Hardback €58.50
Catalogue Price: €65
ISBN: 978-1-80151-216-9
November 2026. 700 pages. Ills.

Thomas Bartlett
Introduction

Catherine Swift
Irish fighting men in the era of Brian Boru

Caitlin Ellis
Viking armies in Ireland

Simon Egan
Warfare in later medieval Ireland

Ruth A. Canning
Elizabeth I’s Irish soldiers

James O’Neill
Hugh O’Neill and the Irish military revolution

Pádraig Lenihan
The Irish soldier, 1641–1702

Declan Downey
Irish soldiery in the armies of Spain and Austria, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries

Tim Fanning
Irish soldiers on the frontiers of Spanish America

Pierre-Louis Coudray
The Irish military experience in France, 1690–1800

Samuel K. Fisher
The Irish soldier in the American Revolution

Andrew Dorman
The Irish soldier in eighteenth-century 
Ireland

Suzanne Forbes and Charles I. McGrath
The barracks network in Ireland and 
the Irish soldier in the British Army

Caitriona Kennedy
Wellington’s Irish soldiers

Andrew MacKillop
Irish military identities in the English East India Company, c.1740–c.1820

Chandra Manning
Irish soldiers in the US Civil War

Paul Huddie
The Irish soldier in the Crimean War

Aoife Bhreatnach
Irish women in the nineteenth
century British Army

Tony Gaynor
Irish soldiers in Ireland, 1800–1914

Nicholas Perry
The Irish landed class and the British Army, c.1770–1920

Mark McGowan
Canada’s Irish Catholic soldiers and the wars of Empire, 1899–1945

Jeff Kildea
The Irish soldier in Australia in the twentieth century

Patrick McCarthy
The Irish soldier in the First World War

Edward Burke
Paramilitarism and the state in modern Ireland

Eve Morrison
The IRA at war: biography of a movement

Mary McAuliffe
The soldiers of Cumann na mBan: women, militancy, and the revolutionary wars of 1919–22

Fionnuala Walsh
Irish women and the British military in the two world wars

Jack Kavanagh
Building an army for the Irish Free State

Lar Joye
A social and political history of An Fórsa Cosanta Áitiúil, 1946–2005

Eunan O’Halpin
Neutral soldiers amid global wars in the Emergency Army, 1939–45

Steven O’Connor
The Irish in the British Armed Forces during the Second World War

Seán Gannon 
Irish soldiers and soldier-policemen:
defending the British Empire, 1900–60

Michael Kennedy
The Irish soldier in Congo: ONUC, 1960–4

Eoin Kinsella
Women in the Irish Army